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Poor NASA
At the beginning of 2010, along with President Obama's budget cuts, the NASA space program got a massive budget cut, along with cutting their ability to send more people into space along with sending more probes to scope the universe and her dark corners. -
astronomers get new tools for detecting gravitational waves
an instrument aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope began surveying the sky in 2008. This instrument located hundreds of gamma-ray-emitting objects throughout our Galaxy, and astronomers suspected many of these could be millisecond pulsars. Paul Ray of the Naval Research Laboratory initiated an international collaboration to use radio telescopes to confirm the identity of these objects as millisecond pulsars. -
"The Sun Woke Up"
The sun, sending out powerful solar flares and massive eruptions that created dazzling aurora displays, appeared to have "woken up." -
Youngest Astronomer Finds a Supernova
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) has announced the discovery of a supernova by a ten-year-old amateur astronomer, the youngest person ever to have made such a discovery. The supernova was discovered on January 2, 2011 by the ten-year old, Kathryn and Paul Gray. -
planets discoverd is double star system
Two massive planets have been found orbiting a binary system consists of two stars in a very close orbit, and contains two Jupiter-like planets. -
hubble finds most distant galaxy to date
ultra-deep imaging data from the Hubble Space Telescope have found what may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, about 13.2 billion light-years away. The study pushed the limits of Hubble's capabilities -
Mercury's Messanger
After six-and-a-half years of traveling in space, NASA's Messenger probe made history March 17 by becoming the first spacecraft to enter into orbit around Mercury. The probe was designed to capture Mercury's surface and make a map of the surface in detail. Messanger - Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging -
Pluto's New Moon
A new moon has been discovered circling around Pluto sometime in July. It was spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope and it is said to be the smallest of four around Pluto. The moon was temporarily named P4 by astronomers. -
Is Pluto a Planet?
After five years of debate, in 2011, Pluto, once "a dwarf planet" has been classified as to not be a planet at all, officially. Pluto - Planet? -
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Curitosity Did Not Kill the Cat
NASA set sail a new program, more or less of a Mission to Mars program, with a rover by the name of Curiosity. It was said to take about 9 months to reach Mars and begin its scouting. On August 6th of 2012, around the predicted time frame, Curiosity landed on Mars, safe and soundly. -
Christmas Comet Lovejoy
.it missed the sun an was seen from earth.the comet was captured in photos and time-lapse video taken from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile. -
Pluto's Fifth Moon
The Hubble Space Telescope found another moon orbiting Pluto. Astronomers named it P5 -
Galaxy Cluster Found in Plain View
A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant example of a galaxy cluster lying in the middle of one of the most well-studied regions in the sky. This cluster is located 10.5 billion light-years away from our own Milky Way galaxy and is made up of a dense concentration of 30 galaxies. -
magnetic field found on star other then the sun
Two University of Iowa researchers,Robert Mutel and William Peterson. the image of the coronal loop. was made of the star Algol, a variable star in the constellation Perseus.
